I sould start a breathing air company and sell air to people like you, because as you know, if you get it without paying it's stealing. Mr. Burns and his sunshield must be your best pals.
Copyright is Anno 1710. People expresed ideas and created art just fine before than. People seem to have a basic need to create and to express their ideas. People also seem to have a basic need to share information, this is commonly called culture, and I'm afraid about the future of that. Very afraid. Because beeing able to control culture (and corporations are heading that way, copyright works better when few give to many) is right up there to beeing able to control language -- culture and language both are the most important tools of comunication for humans.
The economic aspect... I believe that we are already at a place where active production of goods by all people (at least in the way people are involved now) would be countereffective and unproductive. The economy is responding by creating a pseido-economie (aka new economy) where the so called "intellectual property" is sold not to manufacturers who use that information to make better things or improving the process itself, but to end users. Instead of selling you a piece of clothing they sell you a brandname with a piece of clothing as a bonus. While this does "create" work places, it is IMHO a very misguided way of using human resources.
One could argue that redistibuting the workforce in smaller time chunks to the production work would create equal tangible output. This would free people to use their time to explore their creative talents and statisfy their urge for creation. Of course that would not create the needed scientific, enginiering and similar "hard" information, but I believe that this information is fundamentaly different by the fact that it is not usualy needed by the end users of a product, but manufacturers, who can then redistribute those fixed costs.
Creative works do not belong to anyone. They never have. You can someone use the word "own" of something that is copyable at the most basic level (no inherit physical form at all -- a memory is a kind of copy after all) and is not in your hands or vaults, but out there in the world and propably in large numbers? What exists are monopolies of copying, long and overreaching monopolies. You know what monopolies do to the market, especialy monopolies that are around for a long time?
Copyleft is not needed if there is no copyright. Copyleft is a subversion of the system to get around the fact that otherwise Free Software (and other kinds of works) could be made non free to downstream receivers.
They can keep it in their heads, I have notyhing against that, still would be better than the mess now. No one creates in vacum so if we go by you the birds own all the music (everything else is just derived...).
There are different kinds of boring. I fell asleep when first watching 2001 (it was aroud 04:00 so..), but I still though it was a great movie and regreted falling asleep.
Yes, but you see if EVFERYONE had submachine guns the workers in the office buildings could start an effective counter attack by shooting out of the windows at everything that moves, this would ensure that the attacker would have to stand still...:-P
Copyright is an artificial construct, if it does not give the society the expected benefits it should be fixed. No handwaving about how the artists "own" what they create please.
PC have more than enough memory and data is on large hard disks. But a keyboard without tactical feedback isn't going to become good for typing -- chording maybe, but I doubt it.
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I sould start a breathing air company and sell air to people like you, because as you know, if you get it without paying it's stealing. Mr. Burns and his sunshield must be your best pals.
Copyright is Anno 1710. People expresed ideas and created art just fine before than. People seem to have a basic need to create and to express their ideas. People also seem to have a basic need to share information, this is commonly called culture, and I'm afraid about the future of that. Very afraid. Because beeing able to control culture (and corporations are heading that way, copyright works better when few give to many) is right up there to beeing able to control language -- culture and language both are the most important tools of comunication for humans. The economic aspect... I believe that we are already at a place where active production of goods by all people (at least in the way people are involved now) would be countereffective and unproductive. The economy is responding by creating a pseido-economie (aka new economy) where the so called "intellectual property" is sold not to manufacturers who use that information to make better things or improving the process itself, but to end users. Instead of selling you a piece of clothing they sell you a brandname with a piece of clothing as a bonus. While this does "create" work places, it is IMHO a very misguided way of using human resources. One could argue that redistibuting the workforce in smaller time chunks to the production work would create equal tangible output. This would free people to use their time to explore their creative talents and statisfy their urge for creation. Of course that would not create the needed scientific, enginiering and similar "hard" information, but I believe that this information is fundamentaly different by the fact that it is not usualy needed by the end users of a product, but manufacturers, who can then redistribute those fixed costs.
Creative works do not belong to anyone. They never have. You can someone use the word "own" of something that is copyable at the most basic level (no inherit physical form at all -- a memory is a kind of copy after all) and is not in your hands or vaults, but out there in the world and propably in large numbers? What exists are monopolies of copying, long and overreaching monopolies. You know what monopolies do to the market, especialy monopolies that are around for a long time?
Copyleft is not needed if there is no copyright. Copyleft is a subversion of the system to get around the fact that otherwise Free Software (and other kinds of works) could be made non free to downstream receivers.
I don't know what to think about the fact that the page has a SUV ad...
If you ever find a way to copy a car for 1/10th of the price and common, cheap equipment...
They can keep it in their heads, I have notyhing against that, still would be better than the mess now. No one creates in vacum so if we go by you the birds own all the music (everything else is just derived...).
The Bible is like a box of chocolates...
What makes you think that "the Web" is the the World Wide Web?
I ho[pe that with ever increasing productivity work times will become shorter and more people with day jobs can realize their creative ambitions.
There are different kinds of boring. I fell asleep when first watching 2001 (it was aroud 04:00 so..), but I still though it was a great movie and regreted falling asleep.
Choking to death from a mix of coffee and humor, what a nice way to and a long book...
Yes, but you see if EVFERYONE had submachine guns the workers in the office buildings could start an effective counter attack by shooting out of the windows at everything that moves, this would ensure that the attacker would have to stand still... :-P
I'd assume their is a fair porttion of tab closing.
Copyright is an artificial construct, if it does not give the society the expected benefits it should be fixed. No handwaving about how the artists "own" what they create please.
They have invaded EVERYWHERE in the real world with their ads that people now think that adding the same crap to games "for realism" is a good idea?!
PC have more than enough memory and data is on large hard disks. But a keyboard without tactical feedback isn't going to become good for typing -- chording maybe, but I doubt it.
You just scare of everyone else, right? :-P
IMHO Linux is responsible less Windows sales -- it's the reason why Windows 2000 is as good as it is and therefor there is less reason to buy XP.
Ben found internet pr0n.
Sean applied the mechanics learned in physics to accelerate his hip-e.
I take good movies in black and white with mono sound over bad movies with excelent visual and sound effects.
Ungood.
Must be an android...
Because Novel and MySQL AB aren't reputable companies? Because IBM hasn't donated code to the Linux kernel?